Pam Burridge and Roz Johnston
Roz Johnston and former world surfing champion Burridge have instilled their passion for wave-riding in many other women.
Roz Johnston and former world surfing champion Burridge have instilled their passion for wave-riding in many other women.
Maree Smith and Maree Jenner both have achondroplasia. They met 50 years ago at the first national convention of the Short Statured People of Australia.
Meet lifesaver mates Dean “Deano” Gladstone, a health fanatic, and Anthony “Harries” Carroll, who's not afraid to get Botox or get naked.
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Sarah Brown was told during an ultrasound that her first son, Harry, had a rare brain defect. He's now a beautiful young man – who can also be wildly inappropriate.
Sydney DJ Tom Lowndes met his wife Alexandra Plim, when she was at drama school. His absences as he tours are just one relationship stress – but communication sets them right.
After a spinal injury in 1973, Anders was told he wouldn't live past 40. He married Julie a year later and they have three children.
Luke Hanson and sixth-generation Lord Howe Islander Rourke are partners in one of Australia’s oldest family businesses.
Keaan Mason, 23, is a Kariyarra man from WA’s Pilbara region who met Rachel Argaman, 51, the CEO of TFE Hotels, via the CareerTrackers Indigenous Internship Program.
Award-winning soprano Emma Matthews, met her husband, Stephen, a theatrical technician with Opera Australia, when he was a lyric tenor. He gave up singing when the couple decided to have children. They have two sons.
For teenager Ned Travers, walking an Italian pilgrim route with his mother Carolyn has improved his health.
Legendary chefs Stephanie Alexander and Annie Smith have been friends since Smith became Alexander's apprentice 33 years ago.
After seeing colleagues die, jockey Dwayne Dunn did not want his son to follow in his footsteps.
Fish-and-chip shop owners Manny and John Notaras work together, play together, and sometimes beat each other up.
Shannon O’Connell balances life as a top super-bantamweight boxer with her family and business with the help of her trainer, Luke Meldon.
A minuscule spider brought together documentary filmmaker Simon Cunich 31, and former litter collector and citizen scientist Stuart Harris, 51, resulting in a collaboration and friendship that’s still reaping rewards.
Comedians Denise Scott (left), and Judith Lucy, collaborated on a project with colleague Lynda Gibson – and bonded for good when Gibson’s cancer became terminal.
IT professional Glen Parker was keen on nurse Cat Fung, for years, but she kept fobbing him off.
Anita Pahor, 45, founding patron of the Red Cross Society of Women Leaders, met Tania Harris, 48, a pastor, at theological college.
Comedian Ellen Briggs and her husband Alex, a MotoGP mechanic for star Italian motorcyclist Valentino Rossi, are separated by his job for much of the year.
Animal conservationist Bob Irwin, 77, was mourning the loss of his first wife when he met Judy, 61, in 2000. They slowly bonded over their mutual love of wildlife, went on to marry, and now live on a rural Queensland property.
MK1 and Shamoun, 38 are best mates – but after one argument, they didn’t talk for two years.
Amy is Rugby Union’s first full-time female referee. Her twin brother Paul set up the first school for teaching English on Nauru.
Veteran actor and producer Bryan Brown, 69, and his daughter, actress, writer and director Matilda Brown, 29, enjoy working together, but over the years they haven’t always seen eye to eye.
In 2014, environmental officer Glen Turner was shot dead. Since then, the friendship between his partner, Alison, and his sister, Fran, has deepened.
Comedian and actor Akmal Saleh, met his social-worker wife, Catie, at a party. It soon led to an unromantic marriage proposal.
Former champion athlete Paul Crake met his wife, Daniela Zanon, a year before an accident left him in a wheelchair.
Former ballerina Marita Alexander instilled a love of writing in her daughter, author Nicole.
First published in Good Weekend on November 28, 2009
Linda Burney, the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the House of Reps, and Lynette Riley, a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, have been best friends since teachers college.
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